From today's Guardian:
The long shadow of the Falcon:
Dashiell Hammett's creation Sam Spade is father to
every gumshoe that ever walked down a mean street, says
crime-writer Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky
Saturday May 6, 2000
'After reading The Maltese Falcon, I went mooning about in a
daze of love such as I had not known for any character in
literature since I encountered Sir Launcelot," Dorothy Parker
wrote in the New Yorker in 1931, adding that she had read the
book 30 or 40 times in the two years after its
publication.
Read the rest of Paretsky's intro to a new edition of TMF on
the Guardian's website:
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4015157,00.html
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